🎬 Movie App Web API - ASP.NET Core 9

This project is a RESTful Web API built using ASP.NET Core 9, designed to manage and serve data for a movie application. It allows users and clients (such as web or mobile frontends) to interact with a backend movie database efficiently and securely.

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🧰 Technologies Used

• ASP.NET Core 9
• Entity Framework Core
• SQL Server / SQLite
• Swagger / Swashbuckle
• AutoMapper
• JWT Authentication (Optional)
• LINQ and Async/Await

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📦 Features

🎥 Movie Management (CRUD)

• Create: Add new movies with title, description, release year, genre, duration, rating, etc.
• Read: Retrieve all movies or a specific movie by ID.
• Update: Modify movie details.
• Delete: Remove movies from the database.

🔍 Filtering & Searching

• Filter movies by:
  • Title (partial/full match)
  • Genre
  • Release year
  • Minimum rating
• Sort by popularity, release date, or title.
• Pagination for large movie lists.

👤 User Authentication & Authorization (Optional)

• User registration and login.
• Secure endpoints using JWT (JSON Web Tokens).
• Role-based access (e.g., admin vs. regular user).

🗂️ Data Persistence

• Database integration using Entity Framework Core.
• Code-first or database-first approach.
• Migrations to update schema easily.

📄 API Documentation

• Integrated Swagger UI for testing and understanding available endpoints.
• Clear schema definitions and example requests/responses.

⚙️ Other Functionalities

• Dapper for clean and simple object mapping between DTOs and entities.
• Global exception handling.
• Logging using built-in or third-party libraries.
• CORS configuration to support frontend integration.